Sugar and spite

TOWIE favourites will have to take their fights and flirting elsewhere after
Sugar Hut owner Mick Norcross QUIT the show and BANNED producers from
filming at his club.

Mick’s bombshell comes as show stars Mario Falcone and Lucy Mecklenburgh face
the AXE for slagging off producers to fans.

The burly boss is sick of the show’s upstarts arguing in his glamorous
Brentwood gaff and reckons they’ve lowered the tone.

Mick, a regular since the first series, is worried the arguments set up by
show bosses in the venue is putting off regular punters.

He had asked producers not to use the venue as a battleground before the
recent series started. So he hit the roof after last Sunday’s show which saw
Sam Faiers brand his busty Sugar Hut Honeys SLAGS. She lashed out in
a row over whether one — Amy Broadbent — had slept with Mario behind the
back of girlfriend Lucy.

A furious Mick told TV Biz: “My club is an upmarket venue where people come to
drink champagne and feel spoiled.

“All these rows they keep filming don’t show the club in a good light and I’m
worried it’s putting people off coming, which is the last thing I want.

“Allowing the Sugar Hut Honeys to be called slags is the final straw. I would
never allow that to happen in my venue.

“I’ve had enough. I’m out.”

His departure will no doubt give producers even more of a headache. They are
still reeling from Mario and Lucy’s Twitter outbursts during Wednesday’s
show.

Mario tweeted: “The producers are still lying to you all… Coronation Street
is more reality than TOWIE!” And Lucy wrote: “Mario’s name has been
tarnished because Towie producers didn’t do their research There is no
proof!”

Bosses yesterday hauled Mario over the coals, with one source saying: “He is
right out of order calling producers liars.”

The on/off lovebirds will face angry show chiefs today to learn their fate.
Rumours abounded last night that the couple might decide to QUIT. But
insiders hit back saying: “They’ll be axed more like.

“This show is bigger than the pair of them. The meeting will be very
interesting.”